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THE SAD YEARS

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HEROD (Continued)

Seraphim: “Consolatrix afflictorum.”

I hear again from out the singing spheres
A mother's scream, and all her whispered prayer
Stabbed by her anguish, faint beneath her fears,
I hide once more upon that far earth there.

Cherubim: “Regina Martyrum.”

Draw close the starry curtains of the night
Lest Heaven fade and I forget to pray;
Here God is love, we hate nor suffer fight,
What Herod lives upon the earth to-day?

Cherubim:

“Da pacem, Domine, sustinentibus te, ut Prophetae tui fideles inveniantur.”

Seraphim:

“Pacem relinquo vobis, pacem meam do vobis, dicit Dominus.”

Cherubim and Seraphim: Alleluia.

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